After the Second Lebanon War, the Irish government tried to prevent weapons from reaching Israel through Shannon Airport. The Irish Department of Transport required that any military equipment passing through the country required "prior notification" and "exemption waivers."

"The Transport Department notice followed upon the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) oral but definitive decision during the Lebanon conflict to forbid US military transits carrying munitions to Israel," the document reads, "a policy that the DFA did not convey to [the US embassy] before informing the media."

The cable explains that this policy is due to the fact that "segments of the Irish public see the airport as a symbol of Irish complicity in perceived US wrongdoing in the Middle East."

James C. Kenny, the American ambassador to Ireland at the time, wrote that Irish officials were warned that the US would use other airports, causing a loss of tens of millions of dollars for the Irish economy, if the policy would continue.

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